kickstarter: Today’s Project of the Day is The Uni: a portable, open-air reading room for public space. In a world dominated by Words with Friends, Portal 2, that new Rihanna song “Man Down” and reading isn’t always as easy as it should feel. But what if public spaces all of the sudden became mini-libraries filled with all sorts of wondrous tales and information all at your disposal. And such is the premise behind the Uni, a module, self-constructing mini-library to begin transforming parks into reading rooms this fall! (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, unsigned but apparently by Aaron...